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About the Artist

Michael Ajerman was born in New York. As a teenager he took part in the Cooper Union Outreach Program. Afterwards studying at the Corcoran School of Art, the New York Studio School, along with the Yale Summer School at Norfolk. In 2003 he completed his Masters Degree at the Slade School of Art. Receiving the British Institute Award from the Royal Academy the same year.  

That same year, Ajerman created some of the initial painting classes at the Art Academy with the guidance of Jonathan Freemantle. Currently teaching independently with recent lectures on painting at The Turps School, Camberwell College of Art, and Heatherley's School of Art.

He has consistently exhibited internationally. Select solo shows include: Grip, Aleph Contemporary, London UK.  Possessions, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Far From Tahiti, HemingwayArt, Oxford, UK. Squash, Transition Gallery, London, UK. He is a contributor to Garageland Magazine where he has written articles on cinema, music, literature, and painting. In 2018 he was awarded UCLA’s Kitaj Research Fellowship where his investigation of artists RB Kitaj and Walter Sickert culminated in the lecture, From Tipperary to Westwood.

Select press includes: The New York Times, Flash Art, The Guardian, The Sun, Arte, Garageland, Bay Area Reporter, and the Royal Academy Magazine.

He lives and works in London.